I shouldn’t, but…
The photos you’re about to see are from my absolute favourite walk in the world.
As you know, this kind of photography doesn’t interest me at all and it’s not what this blog is about, but today I enjoyed the walk so much that I’m making an exception.
Between 2006 and 2008 I lived in a hotel right on Matagorda beach — exactly where the red arrow is on the left side of the map at the top of this post. My company relocated me there for work and put me up in a room where I spent those two years living out of nothing more than a carry-on bag.
I spent all day inside the hotel, so when my shift finished it was already getting dark and I would go out for a couple of hours of walking. I alternated between two routes: one headed southwest (the one I showed you in the previous post), or northwest along the promenade that runs between the airport and the sea, all the way to the local residential area called Playa Honda.
This afternoon I did the northwest walk in reverse: I parked the car in Playa Honda, walked the coastal path past the airport until I reached my old hotel, then turned around and came back the same way. The other big difference from when I lived there is that in winter I usually finished work almost at dusk, so the walk home was in complete darkness (back then the airport had no night flights and they switched off all the lights). I loved hearing nothing but the sea in the pitch-black night.
Actually, I hadn’t planned to bring my camera today. As you know, Lanzarote isn’t appealing for the kind of photography I enjoy, and I just wanted to do the walk the way I used to — without thinking about anything else. But in the end I threw it in the bag anyway, and because of that I can now share the photos you’ll see below. They’re in chronological order: the first one was taken just after I got out of the car in Playa Honda, and the last one only a couple of minutes before I got back.
